My guess is that the company is preparing for growth, attrition and increased block hours. Remember there is lead time required to get people trained, which is why they increased all hiring and training numbers from Sept. going forward.

Regarding the 200 specifically - planning could see based on pref bids that there are 200 FOs that are at or are approaching upgrade mins. Increased block hours could also be coming to the 200. You'll notice however, in the current vacancy that should contain CRJ200 new hires, there are none, just saab. For it seems, they're happy with the staffing on the 200.